There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

This thought had originated due to the idea that sign language hinders the development of an oral language in deaf children ( Mayberry, 2008 ).

The 1940 discovery of a lost work by Vincent of Lérins, which bears a striking similarity to much of the language of the Athanasian Creed, have led many to conclude that the creed originated either with Vincent or with his students.

On this basis, a related hypothesis holds that the name originated from this Indo-European root via a Baltic language such as Lithuanian.

Since the various braille alphabets originated as transcription codes of printed writing systems, the mappings ( sets of character designations ) vary from language to language.

English is a West Germanic language originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the northern Netherlands.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

Proto-Chadic language is believed * to have originated in Asia before it entered Africa as early as 7 kya, probably before or after the First Egyptian Dynasty.

The latter two meanings also apply for the Afrikaans language, spoken in Southern Africa, which originated from Old Dutch amongst others.

Nevertheless, the Hittites continued to refer to the language that originated in these areas as Luwian.

The population of most of the Hittite Empire by this time spoke Luwian dialects, another Indo-European language of the Anatolian family that had originated to the west of the Hittite region.

The Indo-Europeanists for Greek had hypothesized ( see Dorian invasion, Proto-Greek language ) that Greek originated outside Greece and was brought in by invaders.

While the idea of markup language originated with text documents, there is an increasing usage of markup languages in other areas which involve the presentation of various types of information, including playlists, vector graphics, web services, content syndication, and user interfaces.

And yet the Maldivian language, the first Maldive scripts, the architecture, the ruling institutions, the customs and manners of the Maldivians originated at the time when the Maldives were a Buddhist Kingdom.

The Missouria or Missouri ( in their own language, Niúachi, also spelled Niutachi ) are a Native American tribe that originated in the Great Lakes region of United States before European contact.

This usage originated in the FORTRAN programming language.

However, it is still not clear from where the words “ Kashubians ” and “ Kashubian ” ( Polish: “ Kaszubi ” and “ Kaszubski ”, Kashubian language: " Kaszëbi " and " kaszëbsczi ") originated and how they were brought from the area near Koszalin to Pomerelia.

The name refers to the area of Logudoro ( term originated as corrupt blending of the kingdom's name of Logu de Torres ) in which it is spoken, mainly a northern subregion of the island of Sardinia which mainly defers to Ozieri ( Othieri ) and Nuoro ( Nùgoro ) for culture and language, as well as history, with important particularities in the western area, where the most important town is Ittiri.

In countries where most networks broadcast identical, centrally originated content to all their stations and where most individual TV transmitters therefore operate only as large " repeater stations ", the terms " television network ", " television channel " ( a numeric identifier or radio frequency ), and " television station " have become mostly interchangeable in everyday language, with professionals in TV-related occupations continuing to make a difference between them.

Philippine English employs a rhotic accent that originated from the time when it was first introduced by the Americans during the colonization period to replace Spanish as the dominant language used in politics.

So, while the name or spelling Shiraz may be an effect of the English language on a French name, there is no evidence that it actually originated in Australia, although it was definitely the Australian usage and the Australian wines that made the use of this name popular.

The first fully developed constructed languages we know of, as well as the first constructed languages devised primarily as auxlangs, originated in the 19th century ; Solresol by François Sudre, a language based on musical notes, was the first to gain widespread attention although not, apparently, fluent speakers.

** Yiddish language – a High-German language with Hebrew and Slavic influence, used by Ashkenazi Jews

Despite this, the tradition of most Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogues is to use Hebrew ( usually Ashkenazi Hebrew ) for all except a small number of prayers, including the Kaddish, which had always been in Aramaic, and sermons and instructions, for which the local language is used.

Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally " Jewish ") is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken in many parts of the world.

For a significant portion of its history, Yiddish was the primary spoken language of the Ashkenazi Jews and once spanned a broad dialect continuum from Western Yiddish to three major groups within Eastern Yiddish, namely Litvish, Poylish and Ukrainish.

The language became extinct some time in the Middle Ages, possibly due to expansion of the Ashkenazi culture and their own Yiddish language based on German.

The Georgian Jews have traditionally lived separately, not only from the surrounding Georgian people, but also from the Ashkenazi Jews in Tbilisi, who had different practices and language.

The Ashkenazi expellees and their High German Yiddish language left a significant imprint on Eastern Central Europe, in towns like Lviv ( Lemberg ), Lublin, Minsk and Chernivtsi ( Czernowitz ), but also in the Bohemian capital Prague as well as in numerous shtetls.

Yiddish is the Judeo-German language developed by Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Central Europe, and Ladino, also called Judezmo and Muestra Spanyol, is the Judeo-Spanish language developed by Sephardic Jews who lived in the Iberian peninsula.

Thus, with their arrival in Israel, the Mizrahim retained culture, customs and language distinct from their Ashkenazi counterparts.

Yiddish was historically a common language of Ashkenazi ( Central and Eastern European ) Jews.

** Ashkenazi Hebrew language – Ashkenazi Jews, liturgical

* Ashkenazi Hebrew language ( liturgical )

Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community.

The Joys of Yiddish is a book containing the lexicon of common words and phrases in the Yiddish language, primarily focusing on those words that had become known to speakers of American English due to the influence of American Ashkenazi Jews.

In Europe — e. g. thanks to the European Charter of Regional and Minority Language — some languages are in quite a strong position, in the sense that they are given special status, such as Basque, Irish, Welsh / Cymraeg, Catalan, Rhaeto-Romance / Romansh and Romani, native language of the Roma / Gypsies in Eastern Europe ), whereas others are in a rather weak position ( e. g. Frisian, Scottish Gaelic, Turkish, Saami / Lappish, Sorbian / Wendish and Yiddish, the once common language of Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe ).

Then off to a remote place in an underdeveloped country where the diet, culture, language and living conditions will be different.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

Linguistic anthropology ( also called anthropological linguistics ) seeks to understand the processes of human communications, verbal and non-verbal, variation in language across time and space, the social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture.

In some ways, studying the language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European colonies was not unlike studying the flora and fauna of those places.

The psyche, culture, fanaticism of an author can be disregarded when interpreting a text, because the words are rich enough themselves with all of the traditions of language.

It should not be assumed that an archaeological division or culture unit corresponds to a particular language group or to a socio-political entity such as a tribe.

ASL has come a long way from its condemned days of banned use to being viewed as a grammatical language, which is the main form of communication in American Deaf culture.

The resolution recognised the Ainu people as " an indigenous people with a distinct language, religion and culture ", and rescinded the law passed in 1899.

Donnelly attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from Atlantis, which he saw as a technologically sophisticated culture, saying that Atlanteans invented gunpowder and the compass thousands of years before the rest of the world invented written language.

As an adjective, the word Afghan also means " of or relating to Afghanistan or its people, language, or culture ".

After his death from cancer in 1941 his manuscripts were curated by his linguist friends who also worked to spread the influence of Whorf's ideas on the relation between language, culture and cognition.

Although possibly Celtic-speaking in 179 BC, the Bastarnae probably were Germanic in language and culture during the 1st century AD, but appear to have become assimilated by their neighbouring Sarmatians by the 3rd century.

In any case, other Greco-Roman writers of the 1st century AD are unanimous that the Bastarnae were, in their own time, Germanic in language and culture.

Under the Third, Fourth and Fifth republics, humiliating practices aimed at stamping out the Breton language and culture prevailed in state schools until the late 1960s.

Anthropologists have argued that culture is " human nature ", and that all people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically ( i. e. in language ), and teach such abstractions to others.

The Illyrian movement attracted a number of influential figures from 1830s on, and produced some important advances in the Croatian language and culture.

The establishment of funding for the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts and formal Gaelic language courses in public schools are intended to address the near-loss of this culture to English assimilation.

* Index of Cantonese-related articles, which can encompass Guangdong, the Cantonese people, culture, and language

But they counteract or eradicate the more subversive elements of culture ( exclusionary aspects of religion, language, and political / ideological beliefs ).

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

The Corsican language is a key vehicle for Corsican culture, which is notably rich in proverbs and in polyphonic song.

Leontyev had seen human action as a result of biological as well as cultural evolution and, drawing on Marx's materialist conception of culture, stressed that individual cognition always is part of social action which in turn is mediated by man-made tools ( cultural artifacts ), language and other man-made systems of symbols, which he viewed as a major distinguishing feature of human culture and, thus, human cognition.